Thank you so much to all of you who already commented on the "Need Your Help" post!!! I've already got some great advice. Here are a few things I've learned from your comments on and offline as well as things I've picked up online.
1. Be careful with white cabinets. They are high maintenance and show everything. Maybe not the best choice for a young family
2. Baseboards are hard to paint. If you are stuck with a single tone paint job, get it the color that you want the baseboards and paint the walls yourself.
-I actually just recently learned what 3-tone paint means. 1. wall color 2. ceiling color 3. baseboard color. I never knew you had to pay extra to not have the ceiling color be the same color as the walls or to simply have white baseboards and white ceilings with a different wall color (2 tone).
3. Listen to your design consultant. Ask if there are pictures available of actual homes with their suggested design choices.
4. The darker the counter the better scratches will show. The lighter the counter the more likely it is to show stains.
5. Pick what you like best.
I also thought I should put up a few pictures of what we are dealing with here.
Actual Dining Room
Actual Kitchen. L-shaped kitchen with island. The pipe sticking up is for the sink in the island. The little wall on the left is where the fridge will go.
This is a picture of a completed kitchen in the same home. Not our style and almost everything is upgraded, but you get the idea of the placement of things.
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